If you can’t handle the heat…

Sometimes we need the heat turned up to make us better.  Man I hate that concept but it’s one that I’m getting used to, well, because I don’t have a choice!

Have you ever considered the process that Gold goes through to become one of the most desired metals on earth?  Gold melts at 1062 degrees centigrade, or 1943 in Fahrenheit, and it must be heated to this temperature to go through the refinement process required to extract the pure stuff from the not-so-valuable.  That is a whopping hot temperature and I’m not sure it would be very comfortable to be close to it.  But it’s the kind of heat required based on the rules of nature.

As human beings we’re a bit the same.  We’re made up of all sorts of stuff starting from before we’re born right through to the current day.  We have characteristics, traits, personalities and genetics that make us who we are.  But that doesn’t mean to say that we’re the best we could be.  I’ve found that the heat gets turned up, real HOT, when I need to be refined a bit more, when I need to become better.  It’s almost like someone is watching and knows what areas I need to improve for the next stage of my journey, and so they turn up the heat!

Is it comfortable?  Heck no.  Is good for me?  Absolutely.  Do I like it?  Not at the time, but I have learned that refinement requires heat and it’s something I endure and work through as quickly as I can to get to the other side of the process!  I can’t get through any faster that it should take, but on the other hand I can fight the process and make it take longer than it should!  So I work within the “furnace” to let myself be refined by the heat.

Can you remember a time when the heat got turned up?  Can you remember getting out the other side and feeling better?  If you’re in the middle of the heat right now – take courage.  It’s for a purpose.